Interview w/ Don Shatzer-Community Energy Solutions Iowa

Elk Run Energy doesn't yet have an Iowa office, but they preparing to apply for an air quality permit for a coal plant in Waterloo, Ia.

Last week from St. Louis, Mo., Elk Run Energy's Mark Millburn said he expects to begin application for an air quality permit with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in September.

Millburn said that the air quality permit from the Iowa DNR, "gives us the right to construct the plant under the Clean Air Act."

He also noted that the public can learn about the quality of air they will be breathing from the coal plant at an Iowa DNR public informational meeting possibly before 2008.

This timetable would put the coal plant right on track for completion by 2012.

Elk Run Energy's plan for a coal plant in Waterloo has many concerned about the future of eastern Iowa's air quality.

In this video Don Shatzer explains some of his concerns with the plant. He talks about his neighborhood, Merle Bell's farm, and a Sept 9 rally to save Bell's farm.

Shatzer is the vice-president of Community Energy Solutions, one of the groups fighting coal plant construction on Bell's farm.

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[FreesWorld]

Hi, I didn't find your video until December, 07. How did your rally go?

[robsampsn]

how much mercury would the wind turbines emit?

what about other heavy metals?

why r u so supportive of coal?

do you work for the coal plant?

why not nuclear energy?

[DEZZIELIGHTBULB007]

You are do right!

However, I wonder if a part of the problem could not be absorbed by redesigning coal plants in such a way that no only do they burn coal, but also burn off all their waste products. This technology is quite simple and has been around for decades. It should be possible to double the power output and have no emmitions.

Why not ask your senator if there is not a better way to burn coal.

Good luck!

[mcclureriver]

Technology is getting better every year and for clean coal power plants. If wind and solar was the best way don't you think that we would already be using it. Coal is the most dependable and abundant natural resource that America has. Coal fired power plants don't put mercury out than dupont, dow chemicals, or eastman chemicals. If you want to make a big deal about mercury, maybe you should look into these companies.

[mcclureriver]

we are from west Virginia and here coal employees 50,000 people. National security is one good reason not to have nuclear power plants. "Terrorist" Nuclear power plant cost 3X the amount to run as coal. That extra expense is handed down to the consumer. Radiaton is released in minning uranuim. You have a large amount of waste that is radioactive for 5,000 years. We have no real solution to get rid of it other than burying it underground in Colorado.

[robsampsn]

how much mercury would wind power emit?

none?

I'll take the wind power please

[robsampsn]

what about nuclear power?

[FreesWorld]

Glad to hear it sir. I've just put a down payment on some property in west Texas and hope to do some farming as well.

I like where you all were starting an effort to let the system know where you stand. One of the reasons I got involved in Dr. Paul's run for president is that he believes in private property rights.

Good luck.

[mcclureriver]

Do u not realize that if we had wind power that it would take like 1800 to 2000 to operate what a coal powered power plant does. And you need to just step back and ask yourself self what a minium wage worker would do. How they can afford the solar panels and things that they would need.

[jesusphreekz]

59 COAL Plants Cancelled, Abandoned, or Put on Hold in 2007

1. Indeck Energy Services declines to renew the option for 660 MW "Energy Center" in Elmwood, Illinois, indicating that it did not intend to pursue the project further. In September 06, the U.S. EPA's Environmental Appeals Board had overturned the air permit, finding that it lacked emissions control requirements and environmental impact assessments. Dec 2007

sourcewatch dot org

[jesusphreekz]

and who is this "we" mcclure?